For 15 hours a week, Raleigh talk show host Bob Kwesell broadcasts his right-wing views to 87,000 listeners. Seven months ago, no one in North Carolina had heard of him. Now, WPTF is No. 1 in the Triangle.

There are 25,000 North Carolina girls who get pregnant each year in a crisis that knows no boundaries. Last year, the General Assembly approved $19 million to fund local teen pregnancy projects – the first such program in state history. Legislators also established a study commission to review the sex education curriculum in North Carolina schools.